英语词汇“garden eel”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

garden eel n. any of the small conger eels of the genera Gorgasia and Heteroconger, native to warm waters of the Indo-Pacific and Atlantic oceans, which live in burrows on the sea floor from which the head and upper body protrude; also with distinguishing word.So called because these eels frequently live in large colonies or ‘gardens’ which resemble a field of plant stalks (compare use of garden in this context in quot. 1938).

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1938 W. Beebe Zaca Venture ii. 60 Before me, covering the considerable expanse of sand within view, was a garden of eels.]

1957 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 109 59 We managed to obtain a specimen that day and could determine that the garden eels were truly heterocongrids.

1994 G. R. Allen & D. R. Robertson Fishes of Trop. E. Pacific 57 (caption) Spotted garden eel. Gorgasia punctata.

2002 Guardian 11 May f11 We get down to find the hulk surrounded by hundreds of little garden eels, their heads sticking out of the sand like grass.

单词	garden eel
释义	> as lemmas garden eel garden eel n. any of the small conger eels of the genera Gorgasia and Heteroconger, native to warm waters of the Indo-Pacific and Atlantic oceans, which live in burrows on the sea floor from which the head and upper body protrude; also with distinguishing word.So called because these eels frequently live in large colonies or ‘gardens’ which resemble a field of plant stalks (compare use of garden in this context in quot. 1938). ΚΠ 1938 W. Beebe Zaca Venture ii. 60 Before me, covering the considerable expanse of sand within view, was a garden of eels.] 1957 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 109 59 We managed to obtain a specimen that day and could determine that the garden eels were truly heterocongrids. 1994 G. R. Allen & D. R. Robertson Fishes of Trop. E. Pacific 57 (caption) Spotted garden eel. Gorgasia punctata. 2002 Guardian 11 May f11 We get down to find the hulk surrounded by hundreds of little garden eels, their heads sticking out of the sand like grass. extracted from gardenn. < as lemmas
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